I must say it’s strange that the title says, “without bending!” and you suggest a shuffle with bending.

Genuine Ice Age cards were notorious for having discolored print runs. Some of them have borders that are so discolored they're almost a dark blue.

But the easy solution then is to just do a couple actual shuffles after you mana weave. It's not enough that you have a truly random deck, so you reduce mulligan chances and things like getting land screwed or flooded. But it's not possible to then deconstruct that it isn't random in a convincing way. Like was said in this video, it takes something like 20 shuffles to end up with a truly random library.

Exactly what I way looking for, thank you so much.

Last night I tried the light test on some cards that look a little dingy and discolored. The light sort of shined through, but it was a bluey red purple and fairly dim. I then tried the light yest on an older card from rise of eldrazi. It past the light test. I could see right through it. Then I tried the light on a newer card that I know came out of a booster. It did the same as the original. Bluey red purple color and dim. Do older cards react differently to the light test than newer cards?? Serious enquired cause I've got a Guide of Souls that feels papery on the front and a bit glossy on the back, and it's bluey red purple and dim when I tried the light. It's also dark compared to one that I opened out of a booster. Help?

I'm going to my first draft tomorrow, I'm a bit nervous, this video helped!

so i made a fake with a blue core, and fakes dont have so its A real😂

"Anything else"...a 2/2 for 2 or 3/3 for 3. Boy, back in my MTG says (also 9 y ago) that was accurate. Today fpr 2 mana you get a 3/3 with hexproof and lifelink.

I purchased a Commander deck, seems 100% real, but the Glen Elendra Archmage seemed super dark. Just the image/artwork. But all else seems fine. Just interesting to see a 100% legit product contain a card that's not exactly like the previous print

I'm commenting on a 6 year old video to tell you to pile shuffle instead.

Worst shuffle example #1 is what i've done my whole childhood. And what I went back to as an adult lol. I was smart enough to drop the heavy bend and bridge at least my mother taught me growing up.

This is just one end of the same stick. It's about finding a balance between always pulling a perfect hand, and getting spell/landlocked to the point of zero skill involvement, because neither is fun. At the end of the day, whether it's casual or competitive, it's a game and you're there to have fair fun. Pulling a spell when you need a land, or vice versa is fine, but pulling land after land, spell after spell, or even rolling the opp because you always get what you need, ain't fun for anyone. We shouldn't be focusing on true randomness, completely stacking the deck, or any other extremes; we should be looking to reduce the chances of completely unenjoyable or unfair events occurring so you can all enjoy yourselves with the good and the bad that comes with the GAME.

Great video still :D Thanks!

Getting mana screwed or mana flooded is a part of the game, just because you don’t like when it happens to you doesn’t mean purposefully putting your deck together to avoid it happening isn’t cheating lol, also whoever said every pro does this during pro tour is coping so hard, if that was the case we would almost never see a mulligan ever

Is mana weaving okay before the first round begins?

When i realized how easy it is to cheat via pile shuffling (and even regular overhand shuffling) I made sure to stop pile shuffling and to always cut the opponent's deck and encourage then to cut mine (new players in limited often dont do this). I just realized how easy it would be for me to cheat against someone with little experience and I want to be an honest player without a shadow of a doubt

How am I supposed to shuffle?

My heart sank when I saw I did the first shuffle technique. I didn’t even know it was bad. I do it differently tho. I put extra lands with certain cards so they can get out quickly then I shuffle for a few minutes, I’ll check the deck for Any bad stuff fix that then shuffle. Draw a hand, if it’s good I’ll shuffle the deck back cause it’s all shuffled if not repeat. It takes me ages to shuffle tho so cause I want the game to be random otherwise I can’t tell if the deck is good. Also cheating can actually make you lose in the funniest ways possible. .Mill could take the rigged cards of the top of your library If your deck is 30spells 30 lands and you make it land spell land spell ect o don’t think your deck is as good as you think it is, you need more spells than lands usually, so yeah that would destroy your cheating I think. I only play kitchen table with friends And I taught them to to that do so we all have that advantage ig. Whoops

People who think that burn decks are annoying are think and woke and need to get off the LGBT parade.

I would just shuffle their deck 7 times when they hand it to me to cut. Totally random then!

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This video is a bit old and i'm not sure if there were rule updates on this topic since then. According to the most recent rules i ready, you can mana weave all you want at tournaments BUUUUUTTTTT..... you can NOT do it at the table when the match starts and you can't pile shuffle either. Both are considered 'delay of game' types of tactics. Mana weave before a game officially starts or in between matches is fine, but when the game starts you are required to properly shuffle your deck and pass to the opponent to properly shuffle and cut. And by shuffle, i mean 'an approved randomization of cards'. In theory, if you mana weave, then a proper shuffle will not only negate the mana weave, it also makes it a completely useless activity. Besides, the heck you think the big tournament guys are doing in their hotel room before a match anyways? You'd be an idiot not to make a basic correction in your deck if you happen to find a giant pile of land stuck together.

Great Video, Thank you. Helped a lot.

How am I supposed to know what type of mana weaving pattern my opponent did without looking at the cards? If my opponent sorted his cards into 4 or 6 piles sorting then backwards through five piles isn't going to show anything. If you suspect an opponent was stacking his deck just hand it to the judge without messing with it at all. If it's land, spell, land, spell or any other obvious pattern they'll be able to tell just fine.

about the non consistent older cards back when revised came out i bought a box and 6 packs in the box all the cards were tented yellow we used to call them piss cards

Back in 93 when I was in college. We used to tear up the alpha cards. Because nobody wanted them. Because you couldn't play them in a tournament I wish I could go back in time and kick myself in the ass.

I tend to start shuffling by making six piles and then randomly adding a pile at a time while continuing to shuffle and I didn't realise how the start is a method of cheating

The Bend Test is not a real test! It's just cardboard. Eventually, and especially on older and played cards, the structural integrity wears out and real cards will bend. You can test this yourself by taking a real NM card and bend it back and forth multiple times and at some point, it will just fail. I think my last test was around 15 bends.

Nice to see someone using a little finesse instead of brute force.

Where are you finding the MTG templates for photoshop? Or are you making your own? Thanks.

How do you beat someone who does a double nickel and then pulls, at random, 5 to 7 cards out of the middle, and puts them on the top, or bottom, randomly.

I cant see it in the video so you cut 3 angels up and layer the wing for example 2 or three times?

Ngl, that's a prime example of the things that make Magic completely unattractive for new players...

I still don't get why he does the jeweler's on the white symbol, everyone know it is the green dot you check on the back to find the red L in it.

*me waiting for the part where he draws the isometric view*

Can I use a laser printer?

Good news! I ripped my black lotus and it is authentic!

Who cares? You're still gonna scratch the cards.

Just conducted the rip test on my NM Alpha Black Lotus. It was real 🥳

When I learned to play, I was told that you put 1 land and 2 spells and repeat to make your deck. Then you shuffle normally. So you can get mana-flooded or mana-screwed, but it's less likely. It took over 15 years before I learned that you're not supposed to sort your cards before shuffling.

Flames of Rage isn't actually impossible. This is because hellbent is not a keyword. It's a pseudo. You can tell because it is italicized. What this means is that writing "Hellbent" on a card doesn't actually mean anything. It's just a sort of helpful tag to help you parse the card faster. It doesn't cause the effect to be true. Real Hellbent cards would say *Hellbent* - As long as you have no cards in hand (...). This "As long as you have no cards in hand" is not reminder text. It's not italicized. This is actual rules text. This is the text that's causing this to be true. So since you didn't write this on the card, this effect isn't present. The card says Hellbent, promising that the effect will have something to do with no cards in hand, but then it breaks that promise by not actually having any text about that. So the card is just lying about having a Hellbent effect. Also, what is hellbent even supposed to be doing here? Even if it did work the way you seem to think it does, what is it telling us when it appears before the entire text of an instant. The way the card is currently worded (with hellbent not doing anything), what would happen is that you would cast it, and then you would discard a card, and whether or not you were able to do that, it would also deal 10 damage. So is the idea that Hellbent means you can only cast the card when you have no cards in hand? This is allowed and would not prevent you from casting the card, since by the time you attempt to cast the card, it's already on the stack. So if this was the last card in your hand, you could cast it. Then the discard isn't a cost so although you could never actually discard a card, the other effect would still happen.

it's just called a riffle shuffle, and technically the corner riffle is the correct way to do it. it's how card rooms shuffle for poker decks as it exposes the least amount of info and doesn't damage the cards.

Interesting video, and something we will keep in mind! Subbed. :)

It’s perfectly acceptable to Mana Weave as long as you throughly shuffle afterwards.

I needed this after buying the game night box. I'm not sleeving those cards, and pulling seven lands on turn one makes for a dull game.

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Ahh this video brings back a memory. Somone did the 2 anti cheat to me several years ago at a tunement the was like 160+ pepol at, asket then Judges if it looket random and the juges just tunet my deck arund looket it over, said yes gave me to me and ordert me to resuffle it and gave me a game win becus my oppenet took like 20 min doing the.

Ok late to the party here, how to you line up your cards and size them correctly to print. I made a bunch of cards in photoshop and exported them to PNG but Im a novice and dont know how to format them to be able to press print and have 6-8 cards on 1 page

How would this even work in a realistic way? Am I supposed to go to every tournament match and before I shuffle my opponents deck or look at it, I must guess the correct mana weaving counter shuffle to catch a cheater? I really doubt anyone in their right mind would go do this irl.

sweet vid i was thinking on creating some 3 d commanders and was unsure of how to go about it